External investment in the digital health landscape has been fuelled by the effects of COVID-19, with more and more people turning to technology for their health. The pandemic has caused societal change, bringing digital health services to the masses. Our parents, friends and grandparents have been relying on the NHS and health products over the past 18 months. People are ready to embrace healthtech products en masse. It’s always been one of the most worthwhile sectors. Healthtech offers inspiring visions to create better healthcare for all, using innovative tech. But now the mainstream impact is clearer than ever.
Are you looking to make an impact and help people? We’ve researched and chosen 21 of the most impactful healthtech companies to work for this year, all of which have an inspiring vision to better healthcare for all.
Birdie
An agetech startup on a mission to reinvent the way we age. Birdie was founded to radically improve the lives of millions of older adults by providing digital tools (apps, IoT & machine learning) and services that put preventative care at the forefront.
- Impactful mission: To reinvent care so that older generations can age safely in their own homes, surrounded by their families and their communities, and with the independence to live healthier, happier lives.
- Core values: We care
- Glassdoor rating: 4.7
- Best employee perk: A quarterly wellbeing budget
- Additional: B Corp certified business 🐦
Elvie
Developing smarter tech for women.
- Impactful mission: To improve women's lives through smarter technology. Elvie approach problems as women and solve them as engineers, scientists and designers, starting with a real need and innovating around it.
- Core values: We make an impact | We are fearless innovators | We are in it together
- Glassdoor rating: 4.7
- Best employee perk: £100 contribution to your home working set up, to spend as you see fit.
- Additional:, CEO of Elvie won the Technology Gamechanger Award, and has been a pioneer in the femtech industry since she co-founded Elvie. Elvie has just raised an additional £58 million in funding.
BenevolentAI
Fusing technology with human intelligence to develop new medicines that preserve human life.
- Mission: Revolutionising drug discovery and development with AI and machine learning to empower scientists to discover new ways to treat disease.
- Core values: Put patients first | Never give up | One team, one mission | Dare to be curious | Be Benevolent
- Glassdoor rating: 4.6
- Best employee perk: Enhanced maternity/ paternity package & a generous holiday allowance
- Additional: Unicorn status 🦄
Zoe
ZOE is a nutritional science start-up who’s reimagining how we eat and paving the future of nutritional science by leveraging AI.
- Impactful mission: To help people eat with confidence
- Core values: Lead with a scientific mind | Have courage, we’ve got your back | Put users’ interests first | Be respectfully inclusive
- Glassdoor rating: 4.8
- Best employee perk: Employee Assistance Program: You'll have access to career coaching, confidential mental health support and financial support through their employee assistance program.
- Additional: Raised $20 million in March 2021 to speed up program rollout 💪
HealX
AI-powered and patient-inspired technology company.
- Mission: Accelerating the discovery and development of rare disease treatments.
- Core values: Mission-driven | Winning as a team | Pioneering | Continually improving | Flexible | Rewarding
- Glassdoor rating: 4.5
- Best employee perk: Flexible working environment & great work/life balance.
- Additional: Healx has raised $70 million in funding to date. In 2019, the company was listed in and, in 2020, Healx won 5 prizes at the CogX Awards including Grand Jury Prize and Best AI Product and was listed in CB Insights Digital 150.
Healios
The world’s most comprehensive range of clinical services across children’s mental health and neurodiverse conditions.
- Mission: To bring exceptional healthcare to anyone, any time, anywhere. Healios are reimagining the way children, young people and adults access and receive mental health and neurodevelopmental services.
- Core values: Doing the right thing | Integrity | Listening | Delivery | Courage
- Glassdoor rating: 4.9
- Best employee perk: cross-team squads and recognition programmes
- Additional: Healios raised £7mliion in May 2021 💪
Current Health
A single, interoperable platform to manage all patient population at home
- Impactful mission: to ensure every human has the ability to lead a healthier and longer life by predicting disease onset and delivering treatment earlier.
- Glassdoor rating: 5
- Best employee perk: Monthly snack box - A selection of snacks delivered to your door
Unmind - mental health
Unmind is a workplace mental health platform that empowers employees to live more fulfilling and balanced lives by changing the way organisations think about mental health.
- Mission: Everyone has the right to a healthy mind. Unmind are on a mission to improve the mental wellbeing of ten million people in organisations around the world.
- Core values: Thrive in autonomy | Find the shinies | Grow your mind | Unite behind the uniqueness | Do it for ‘U’
- Glassdoor rating: 4.1
- Best employee perk: wellbeing initiatives
- Additional: Unmind raised £33m in May 2021
Lantum
A total workforce platform reducing spend and empowering healthcare staff
- Impactful mission: to radically improve how healthcare works for everyone. We aim to do this by providing software tools to physicians and employers to help them interact and transact efficiently.
- Core values: More than me | Care a lot | See it thru | Think around corners | Bounce back and learn
- Glassdoor rating: 4.3
- Best employee perk: £200 towards home office equipment
- Additional: Female-led
Healthily
The world's first medically approved self-care app.
- Impactful mission: to change the world by bringing informed, effective self-care to 1 billion people. Understand your health, take action and build healthier habits step by step.
- Core values: Excellence | Trust | Openness | Helpfulness | Belief
- Glassdoor rating: 4.7
- Best employee perk: A monthly wellbeing allowance
- Additional: Healthily awarded for the highest standards for health information creation
Elder
The UK’s leading live-in care specialists, providing the alternative to the care home.
- Impactful mission: To reinvent what it means to age.
- Glassdoor rating: 3.9
- Best employee perk: Bagel Tuesdays 🥯
- Additional: Elders come from all over the UK and the world. But it doesn’t really matter where you’re from. It doesn’t matter which university you went to, how your accent sounds, who your mum was, who your dad was, the things you like, the way you dress or who you love. Elder has raised £16.5million to date.
Babylon Health
Combining technology and medical expertise to bring doctors and people closer together. Babylon Health give people round-the-clock access to affordable - often free - holistic healthcare services.
- Impactful mission: To put an accessible and affordable health service in the hands of every person on Earth. To make healthcare accessible, Babylon Health delivers it through the devices people already own.
- Core values: Compassion | Tenacity | Inclusivity | Positivity | Creativity | Ownership
- Glassdoor rating: 3.1
- Best employee perk: Access to unlimited consultations on the Babylon App
- Additional: Unicorn status 🦄
Flo
The fastest growing AI-driven women’s health product that encompasses solutions for girls and women at every stage of their life.
- Impactful mission: To improve women's lives through smarter technology. Flo approach problems as women and solve them as engineers, scientists and designers, starting with a real need and innovating around it.
- Glassdoor rating: 4.9
- Best employee perk: State of the art parental policies (6 months of fully paid maternity leave and 1 month of fully paid paternity leave)
- Additional: Flo Is the #1 Health and Fitness App by downloads worldwide in the App Store 🌎
Cera Care
Modern home care for everyone.
- Impactful mission: To empower people to live longer, better lives in their own homes.
- Core values: Commit | Connect | Create
- Glassdoor rating: 3.9
- Best employee perk: Recognition Awards
- Additional: Cera Care raised £54m in funding in March 2020 🙌
Thriva
Thriva is the UK's most convenient, at-home finger-prick blood test. 💉
- Impactful mission: To help you live healthier for longer.
- Core values: We care | Stay humble | Work hard | Get stuck in
- Glassdoor rating: 4.7
- Best employee perk: Treat yourself budget.
- Additional: Thriva has helped over 500,000 people across the UK proactively manage their health. To date, the company has raised £11m in funding.
Numan
Digital healthcare for men. Numan aims to tackle the problem of erectile dysfunction.
- Impactful mission: To help men — and all that know them — live healthier, happier lives.
- Core values: We care | Stay humble | Work hard | Get stuck in
- Glassdoor rating: 5
- Best employee perk: Flexible working.
- Additional: A chance to build a category-defining company that’s making a real difference in people’s lives.
Zava
ZAVA exists to break down barriers to health - whether that’s a barrier relating to cost, access or information. They're building healthcare that is accessible, dependable and a fraction of today’s cost.
- Impactful mission: ZAVA is redefining what it means to be an online doctor by delivering unparalleled doctor-led care while offering the latest treatments and solutions to a wide variety of medical issues, and continually innovating and developing their service to match their patient's needs.
- Glassdoor rating: 3.5
- Best employee perk: Christmas hampers 🎄
- Additional: Zava strengthens its offering through the strategic and its network of doctors. Zava has raised $32million to date.
Health Hero
HealthHero brings together human expertise and digital convenience to provide quality remote healthcare.
- Impactful mission: It’s Time For Change. 75% of primary care consultations in Europe could be resolved remotely. Yet less than 1% of them are executed digitally. HealthHero’s mission is to change that.
- Core values: Simplify | Own | Aspire | Respect
- Glassdoor rating: 3.9
- Best employee perk: Free breakfasts 🥐
- Additional: The largest telemedicine provider in Europe.
Wellthy
Wellthy provides personalized support to help you tackle the logistical and administrative tasks of caring for the ones you love, including yourself.
- Impactful mission: We dream of the day when taking care of the sick and the elderly becomes seamlessly human and tech-powered.
- Core values: Responsive | Persistent | Collaborative | Humble | Curious | Purposeful
- Glassdoor rating: 4.1
- Best employee perk: Free access to Wellthy’s services.
- Additional: Female-led 🙋♀️
Huma
A global health technology company transforming care and research.
- Impactful mission: Huma is on a journey to use data to deliver good health for all. To create a world where people live longer, fuller lives.
- Core values: Trust is what defines us | We make impossible possible | Modesty is beautiful | Care as we care for our loved ones | We adore crazy | 6th sense
- Glassdoor rating: 3.3
- Best employee perk: generous share option scheme 🤝
- Additional: Huma raised $130 million in May 2021.
Hinge Health
The world’s first digital clinic for back and joint pain.
- Impactful mission: To improve the lives of people suffering from chronic pain — starting with musculoskeletal conditions like back and joint pain.
- Core values: N/A
- Glassdoor rating: 4.5
- Best employee perk: Noise-Cancelling headphone allowance 🎧
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